Read more recruitment stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/4539/recruitment.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 13:08:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/71629/economy-sparks-record-military-recruitment.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe recession has helped boost the US military to its best recruitment year since the post-Vietnam switch to an all-volunteer force. Recruiters hit or exceeded all their targets for the first time since 1973, surprising even Pentagon officials. In addition to rising unemployment, recruiting was helped by bonuses, a recruiting...http://www.newser.com/story/71629/economy-sparks-record-military-recruitment.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 14 Oct 2009 3:41:53 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69199/army-recruiters-video-arcade-draws-fire.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Army Experience Center in Philadelphia—a sort of video arcade/recruiting center—has numerous detractors, and those opponents have an influential ally. “This is just a new version of an old attempt” at recruiting, Pulitzer Prize winner and former New York Times war correspondent Chris Hedges tells dscriber. The simulations...http://www.newser.com/story/69199/army-recruiters-video-arcade-draws-fire.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 11 Sep 2009 17:26:56 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68343/no-child-left-unrecruited.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe military is using a host of behind-the-scenes methods—including the No Child Left Behind Act—to gather information on high school students for recruitment, writes David Goodman in Mother Jones . A little-known provision in NCLB, for instance, requires schools that get funding to supply recruiters with info on all...http://www.newser.com/story/68343/no-child-left-unrecruited.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 01 Sep 2009 15:32:56 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65277/09-grads-picky-despite-grim-jobs-market.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMany of this year's college grads are confounding career advisers by rejecting suggestions that they can't afford to be choosy about what job to take in a recession, the New York Times reports. The grads say they don't want to be forced into less-than-ideal jobs and career paths by economic...http://www.newser.com/story/65277/09-grads-picky-despite-grim-jobs-market.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 25 Jul 2009 6:28:38 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/63912/economic-muck-gives-gop-hope-for-new-blood-in-2010.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAs bad economic reports keep coming, Republicans are seeing candidate recruitment soar, the Hill reports. The party has had “probably its first good couple weeks in four years,” says an analyst, fueled in large part by rising unemployment and sinking stocks. Meanwhile, Democrats have lost top Senate candidate recruits and...http://www.newser.com/story/63912/economic-muck-gives-gop-hope-for-new-blood-in-2010.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 09 Jul 2009 9:18:34 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/63629/case-of-autistic-marine-sheds-light-on-recruitment-ethics.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagOperating in a war-weary America, military recruiters face a difficult task—and some are skirting ethics to fill their quotas, the Los Angeles Times reports. While substantiated cases against recruiters are relatively few—593 claims were verified in fiscal 2007, which saw 319,229 enlistees—the case of an autistic...http://www.newser.com/story/63629/case-of-autistic-marine-sheds-light-on-recruitment-ethics.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 06 Jul 2009 8:58:41 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/60544/defense-giants-stalk-cyberwar-contracts.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMajor defense contractors are already staffed with "hacker soldiers" who can help them earn billions of dollars in Washington's new cyberwar, the New York Times reports. Cranking rock tunes and piling up pop cans, engineers hack away at companies like Raytheon, working for the Pentagon or protecting internal documents. Now,...http://www.newser.com/story/60544/defense-giants-stalk-cyberwar-contracts.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 30 May 2009 15:05:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/60377/cia-wants-you-i-banker.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe CIA is looking for a few good bankers to track down millionaire bad guys and stymie financial terrorism, the New York Post reports. Ads on Bloomberg Radio ask money whizzes to use their “intelligence for the work of a nation.” The $160,000 salary will probably be a pay...http://www.newser.com/story/60377/cia-wants-you-i-banker.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 28 May 2009 15:50:12 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/59252/london-teen-how-i-was-recruited-for-jihad.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Islamists approached him in the mosque, and before he knew it a 15-year-old Londoner was watching jihadist videos and being encouraged to train in Pakistan, the boy tells the Times of London in the “first inside account” of the recruitment process. “A lot of people think that terrorists are...http://www.newser.com/story/59252/london-teen-how-i-was-recruited-for-jihad.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 17 May 2009 12:27:00 CDT